2009年10月20日星期二

Currently, Twitter get tremendous attention from the media. Due to lack of any reliable statistics on Twitter users behavior (especially by individual location, say Hong Kong), I have spend a few days to produce this report to try to analyse the general behavior of Twitter users in Hong Kong.

Due to the limitation of Twitter user profile design, the location field is a free text field and it is not easy to identify and group all the users in a particular location or country. The methodology I used is based on the keywords in user location field to check whether he is living or staying in Hong Kong and use the friend/follower relationship to extract the other Hong Kong users.

User activities:Send tweets within last one week: 34.71% (3102/8937)Send tweets within last one month: 54.34 (4857/8937)Send tweets within last one year: 90.87% (8121/8937)Less than or equal to 10 status update: 3.60%(3214/8937)